A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND VINCENNES POCELAIN WORK-TABLE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 177-181)

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND VINCENNES POCELAIN WORK-TABLE
The rectangular top with a Vincennes blue celeste porcelain tray with central landscape scene, above a spring-loaded frieze drawer flanked by shell roundels, on lyre-end supports and scrolled serpentine square tapering legs joined by a turned baluster stretcher, inscribed on the side of the drawer 'A.W./644/C.H.T.' and in chalk to the underside '463' the porcelain with Vincennes interlaced L mark enclosing date letter 'A' for 1753, and painters dot above and below the interlaced L mark, previously with castors, lacking two brass rosettes

Provenance

Possibly Lowther Castle, Westmorland

Lot Essay

The mould for this Vincennes plat Hébert is listed in the 1752 inventory of the factory. They were generally part of a déjeuner. A similarly shaped tray in the Louvre (bequest of the Comte A.J. de Noailles) is illustrated in M. Brunet and T. Préaud, Sèvres, Des origines à nos jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 147, fig. 71.

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